# mot
## English
### Etymology 1

From French mot. Doublet of motto.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /məʊ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊ

#### Noun

mot (plural mots)
* A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
** 1859, unknown author, “Literary Adventure. Life of Douglas Jerrold”, in North British Review:Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.
** 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 32:‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.
* (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
** 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
    With his big title, an Italian mot
** 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.
* (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.
** 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock

### Etymology 2

Probably from Dutch mot (“woman”). See also mort (“woman”) and moth (“girlfriend”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɒt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒt

#### Noun

mot (plural mots)
* (UK, Ireland, slang) A woman; a wife.
** 1789, G. Parker, “The Sandman's Wedding”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎, published 1896:Come wed, my dear, and let's agree, / Then of the booze-ken you'll be free; / No sneer from cully, mot, or froe / Dare then reproach my Bess for Joe; / For he's the kiddy rum and queer, / That all St. Giles's boys do fear.
** 1829 July, Vidocq, Eugène François with Maginn, William, transl., “Noctes Ambrosiana [En roulant de vergne en vergne]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine‎, number 45, translation of En roulant de vergne en vergne, page 133:And we shall caper a-heel-and-toeing, / A Newgate hornpipe some fine day; / With the mots, their ogles throwing, / Tol lol, &c. / And old Cotton humming his pray.
* (UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
* (UK, Ireland, slang) A landlady.
** 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217:After some altercation with the "mot" of the "ken" (mistress of the lodging-house) about the cleanliness of a knife or fork, my new acquaintance began to arrange "ground," &c., for the night's work.

### Anagrams

* OMT, OTM, TMO, Tom, tom

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *māti (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁tis (“measurement”), deverbative of *meh₁- (“to measure”); compare Old English mǣþ (“measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas (“time”), Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis, “plan”). Sense shift from ‘time’ to ‘weather, year, era’ influenced by Latin tempus (“time, weather”) (compare Romanian timp, French temps).

### Noun

mot m (plural mote, definite moti, definite plural motet)
* weather
    Synonym: qëro (archaic)
* year
* era, times (uncountable)

#### Derived terms

* moc
* motak
* motar
* motës
* motit
* motje
* motmot
* motoj
* motuar

#### Compounds

* motkeqe
* motmot

#### Related terms

* mas (Tosk), mat (Gheg)
* moshë
* muaj

### Adverb

mot
* next year

### References

* ↑ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 274–5.

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttire (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare French mot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmot]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmɔt], [ˈmot]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ot

### Noun

mot m (plural mots)
* word
    Synonym: paraula

#### Derived terms

* joc de mots
* mot a mot
* motar
* motejar
* mots encreuats

### Further reading

* “mot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

mot
* fashion
    Şimdi pek mot emiş ağarğan saçlar(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    Ah men şu motluqtan uzaq olaydım.(please add an English translation of this usage example)

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mot
* Rhymes: -ɔt

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch motte, from Proto-West Germanic *mottō, *moþþō, perhaps related to *muggju (“mosquito, midge”), or *maþō (“worm”). Cognate to English moth, German Motte.

#### Noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)
* butterfly-like insect: moth (usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera)
    Hyponyms: nachtvlinder, uil

##### Derived terms

* fruitmot
* mottenbal
* mottenkruid
* schietmot
* stippelmot

##### Descendants

* Negerhollands: mot
* → Papiamentu: mot (dated)

#### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “moth”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Motte”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

#### Noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)
* a slap, a blow, a hit (physical aggression with hands or fists)
* (by extension) a quarrel, tiff

### Etymology 3

From Middle Low German mutte, perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“to be dirty, wet”).

#### Noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)
* a female pig; a sow
    Synonym: zeug
* (by extension) a lewd woman

##### Derived terms

* keldermot
* steenmot

### Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)
* light rain; drizzle

##### Related terms

* motregen
* motsneeuw

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French mot, from Old French mot, from Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttīre (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin.
Has almost entirely replaced parole in Modern French, perhaps because of its brevity. Compare Catalan mot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mo/
** Audio; “un mot” [ɛ̃ˈmo]:(file)
** Rhymes: -o
** Homophones: maux, mots
* (older, now chiefly Belgium) IPA: /mɔ/
** Audio (Belgium); “le mot” [ləˈmɔ]:(file)
** Rhymes: -ɔ
** Homophone: mots

### Noun

mot m (plural mots)
* word
    Synonym: parole
** 1903, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Pensées d'une solitaire‎, page 43:Le poète est bien plus un évocateur de sentiments et d’images qu’un arrangeur de rimes et de mots.The poet is rather more an evoker of feelings and images than an arranger of rhymes and words.
* note, (short) message
    Synonyms: message, note
* answer to an enigma

#### Derived terms

* à mots couverts
* arracher les mots de la bouche
* au bas mot
* avoir le dernier mot
* avoir son mot à dire
* bon mot
* chercher ses mots
* demi-mot
* donner le mot
* en un mot
* fin mot
* gros mot
* jeu de mots
* jouer sur les mots
* manger ses mots
* mot à mot
* mot ad hoc
* mot caché
* mot composé
* mot de Cambronne
* mot de la fin
* mot de passe
* mot d’esprit
* mot d’ordre
* mot grammatical
* mot juste
* mot lexical
* mot magique
* mot pour mot
* mot souche
* mots croisés
* motus
* ne pas mâcher ses mots
* ne pas piper mot
* ne souffler mot
* ordre des mots
* passer le mot
* peser ses mots
* prendre au mot
* qui ne dit mot consent
* sans mot dire
* sans piper mot
* toucher deux mots
* toucher un mot
* tout de suite les grands mots
* une image vaut mille mots

### Further reading

* “mot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* TOM

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English mot.

#### Alternative forms

* mote, mothe, mouthe

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔːt/

#### Noun

mot (plural motes)
* speck, particle

##### Descendants

* English: mote
* Yola: mothe, mot

##### References

* “mōt, n.$^1$”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

From Old English mōt, from Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō (“tax, toll”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːt/

#### Noun

mot (plural motes or moteez)
* (Early Middle English, rare) tax

##### Descendants

* Yola: mot

##### References

* “mọ̄t, n.$^4$”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3

From Old English *mōt, ġemōt (“meeting”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą.

#### Alternative forms

* mote, moth, moote, mowet, mute
* mod, mode (in surnames and place names)

#### Noun

mot (plural mots)
* meeting; assembly
* disputation, debate, argument
* A company of people.

##### Descendants

* English: moot
* Scots: mut, mote
* Yola: moude, maude, moud

##### References

* “mọ̄t, n.$^3$”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

mot
* first/third-person singular present indicative of moten (“to have to”)

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French mot

### Noun

mot m (plural mots)
* word

#### Descendants

* French: mot

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muːt/

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)
* courage

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse mót.

#### Noun

mot n (definite singular motet, indefinite plural mot, definite plural mota or motene)
* a meeting

##### Derived terms

* åmot

### Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Preposition

mot
* to, towards
    Kjør mot byen. ― Drive towards town.
* against, from
    En paraply skjermer deg mot regnet! ― An umbrella protects you from the rain!
* against, versus
    Det var et kappløp mot tiden. ― It was a race against time.

##### Derived terms

* mot klokken
* motangrep
* motbevise
* motgående
* motkandidat
* motsatt
* motsette
* motspiller
* motstykke
* motta
* mottak
* motvekt
* motvilje
* motvillig
* motvind
* motvirke
* motytelse

### References

* “mot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muːt/

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)
* courage

##### Derived terms

* motlaus
* ovmot

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse mót.

#### Noun

mot n (definite singular motet, indefinite plural mot, definite plural mota)
* a meeting

##### Derived terms

* åmot

### Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Preposition

mot
* to, towards
    Han kom mot dei. ― He came towards them.
* against, from; for
    Har de noko som verkar mot tett nase? ― Do you have anything that works for a stuffy nose?
* against, versus
    Kven skal me spela mot? ― Who shall we play against?

##### Derived terms

* motangrep
* motkandidat
* motsetning
* motstykke
* mottak
* motvekt
* motvilje
* motvillig
* motvind

### References

* “mot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* mòt

### Etymology

From Late Latin muttum.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mot m (plural mots)
* word

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːt/

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mōt
* first/third-person singular present of motan

### Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō (“tax, toll”).

#### Noun

mōt f
* toll
* tax
* meeting

##### Declension

Strong ō-stem:

##### Descendants

* Middle English: mot
** Yola: mot

### See also

* *mōt

## Old French
### Etymology 1

From Late Latin muttum.

#### Noun

mot oblique singular, m (oblique plural moz or motz, nominative singular moz or motz, nominative plural mot)
* word
    Synonym: (more common) parole

##### Descendants

* French: mot

### Etymology 2

See molt

#### Adjective

mot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mote)
* Alternative form of molt

#### Adverb

mot
* Alternative form of molt

## Old Occitan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mut/

### Etymology 1

From Latin multus.

#### Alternative forms

* mout

#### Adverb

mot
* much; a lot

### Etymology 2

From Late Latin muttum.

#### Noun

mot m (oblique plural motz, nominative singular motz, nominative plural mot)
* word

#### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “muttum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 303

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse mót, from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, *gamōtą.
Interchange sense coined by Swedish professor in Nordic languages Ture Johannisson in 1956.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muːt/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mot n
* (chiefly west Sweden) A point where two or more objects meet (e.g. the joint of two bones).
* (chiefly west Sweden) A slip road or flyover.
* (chiefly west Sweden) A grade-separated interchange; a large junction where two or more roads meet.
    Synonyms: trafikplats, (Finland) planskild anslutning
* (Ostrobothnia) A passing place.
    Synonym: mötesplats

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | mot | mots |
| singular | definite | motet | motets |
| plural | indefinite | mot | mots |
| plural | definite | moten | motens |

#### Derived terms

* ledamot (“body part; board member”)

### Preposition

mot
* to, towards
    Kör mot stan. ― Drive towards the town.
* against
    Det där är mot lagen! ― That’s against the law!
* versus

#### Derived terms

* motig

### References

* ↑ Tova Juhlin, Torbjörn Nilsson (2020 October 2) “Mot eller trafikplats - varför heter det olika? ["Mot" or "trafikplats" – why are they called different things?]”, in P4 Östergötland (in Swedish), Sveriges Radio: “Sven-Göran Malmgren vid Göteborgs universitet menar att ordet "mot" lanserades 1956 av professorn i nordiska språk Ture Johannisson och betyder ungefär "möte". ― Sven-Göran Malmgren at the University of Gothenburg states that the word "mot" was introduced in 1956 by the professor of Nordic languages Ture Johannisson and means roughly "meeting".”

### Further reading

* mot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* mot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* Tom, t.o.m., tom

## Tocharian B
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“mead, honey wine”)

### Noun

mot ?
* alcohol
* alcoholic beverage

## Volapük
### Noun

mot (nominative plural mots)
* mother
    Synonym: jifat
    Hypernym: pal
    Coordinate term: fat
** 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: I:Mot omik: ‚Maria’ ämatirajanof ko ‚Ioseph’, äplakoy, das büä ikobikons, pigrodükof fa Saludalanal.His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

#### Declension

* $^1$ status as a case is disputed
* $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Derived terms

* balidhimotäb
* balidjimotäb
* balidmotam
* balidmoted
* balidmotedagität
* balidmotäb
* benomoted
* benomotedik
* bleinamotäb
* bubülimotön (intransitive verb)
* bütüpmoted
* dalemot
* dolafulamot
* emotölan
* famülamot
* fatamot
* gemotam
* jevodülimotön (intransitive verb)
* jipülamot
* jipülimotön (intransitive verb)
* lebenomoted
* lebenomotedik
* lemot
* lemoted
* lemotedik
* lesiöramoted
* lesiöramotedik
* lifamotam
* lifamotamik
* lumot
* lumotik
* lumotiko
* lumoto
* lümot
* lümotik
* lümotiko
* lümoto
* lümotül
* mot obik vobof delo e neito
* motafat
* motafatik
* motalad
* motaladäl
* motalöf
* motam
* motamik
* motamot
* motamotik
* motan
* moted
* motedadel
* motedadom
* motedadät
* motedagität
* motedalepenäd
* motedalän
* motedazif
* motedazäl
* motedazöt
* motedöp
* motik
* motiko
* motil
* moto
* motön
* motül
* nulomotäb
* pamotön
* pemotöl
* pludalemot
* skömamoted
* skömamotedik
* svinülimotön (intransitive verb)
* telidmoted
* telidmotedagität

#### See also

* dalefat
* hipal
* jipal
* lefat
* lufat
* lüfat
* pal

## Walloon
### Etymology

From Late Latin muttum (“sound”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔ/

### Noun

mot m (plural mots)
* word

#### Derived terms

* motî

## Yola
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mʊt/

### Etymology 1

From Middle English but, from Old English būtan. The b was changed to m as a back-formation from the Irish mutated forms, where *mbot and *bhot were reinterpreted as mot and *mhot.

#### Preposition

mot
* but
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 86:Mot w'all aar boust, hi soon was ee-teightBut with all their bravado they were soon taught
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:Wode zar; mot, all arkagh var ee barnaugh-blowe,Would serve; but, all eager for the barnagh-stroke,
** 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 102:Aar was nodhing ee-left mot a heade,There was nothing left but the head,
** 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:Mot earch oan to aar die. Ich mosth kotch a bat.But every one to his day. I must catch the bat.
** 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:Vear'd nodhing mot Portheare. Na skeine e'er ee-waare.I feared nothing but Porter. No skein I ever wore.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English mọ̄t, from Old English mōt, from Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō.

#### Noun

mot
* asking (a charge on goods)

### Etymology 3

Perhaps from Middle English mọ̄ten (“to speak, talk, say”), from Old English mōtian.

#### Verb

mot
* to ask
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:Well, gosp, c'hull be zeid; mot thee fartoo, an fade;Well, gossip, it shall be told; you ask what ails me, and for what;

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

mot
* Alternative form of mothe (“mote”)

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 57